To ensure the preservation, usability, and accessibility content for long term availability, there is a need for management policies and actions, called a Digital preservation policy.

Principle of Digital Archiving

Intellectual Property: International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences (IJRPS) Sponsored by JK Welfare & Pharmascope Foundation is committed to providing access to digital materials while respecting and upholding the intellectual property rights of authors and obtaining prior consent.

Access: Digital preservation activities are performed with the primary goal of long-term access to digital collections.

Authenticity: It ensures that data remain unaltered and the original data is preserved.

Challenges to the preservation of digital data

• Technology (at the level of hardware, system software, application software, data and file formats, storage media readers, and drivers)
• Lack of metadata fails to locate information, also the inability to render and read the information, due to the lack of contextual information.
• The media used to store digital records are usually unstable and deteriorate within a few years or decades at most, rendering the digital records inaccessible.
• Incompatible File formats, especially for older software.
• Digital records may be lost in the event of natural calamities such as fire, flood, earthquake, equipment failure, or a virus attack that disables stored data and systems.
• The digital records may be well protected, but so poorly identified and described that potential users cannot find them.
• Discontinuation of the journal due to any reason leads the published research to extinct, digital preservation keeps the research available.